In Fahrenheit 451, a group of rebels memorize entire books in order to preserve them for future generations. The following is a list of selected books that readers would like to save.

The Bible.

The Dictionary.

100 Greatest Poems.

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.

Valerian Albanov, In the Land of White Death.

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie.

Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea.

Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak.

St. Augustine, Confessions.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

Sue Bender, Plain and Simple.

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.

Jennings Michael Burch, They Cage the Animals at Night.

G.K. Chesterton, Utopia.

Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson, The Gator Girls.

Robert Cormier, The Rag and Bone Shop.

Norman Cousins, Human Options.

Roald Dahl, Matilda.

Kara Dalkey, Little Sister.

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe.

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

William Pene du Bois, The Twenty One Balloons.

Andre Dubus, House of Sand and Fog.

Michael Ende, Momo.

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha.

William Golding, Lord of the Flies.

Gray's Anatomy.

Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

Jane Green, Jemima J.

John Grisham, A Painted House.

Winston Groom, Forrest Gump.

Margaret Peterson Haddix, Running Out of Time.

Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Georgette Heyer, The Talisman Ring.

Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennet, The Mind's I.

Homer, The Iliad & The Odyssey.

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.

Jean Kalogridis, Covenant with the Vampire.

Elmer Kelton, The Way of the Coyote.

Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat.

Stephen King, The Green Mile & The Stand.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, A Gift from the Sea.

Lois Lowry, The Giver.

John Milton, Paradise Lost.

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind.

Donna Jo Napoli, Zel.

George Orwell, Animal Farm & 1984.

Dave Pelzer, A Child Called It series.

Tamora Pierce, Circle of Magic & Circle Opens quartets.

Mario Puzo, The Godfather.

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.

Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows.

Philip Roth, Goodbye Columbus.

Cynthia Rowley & Ilene Rosenzweig, Swell: A Girls’ Guide to the Good Life.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series.

Louis Sachar, Holes.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye.

Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Bram Stoker, Dracula.

Henry Thoreau, Walden.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer.

Edith Wharton, House of Mirth.